Associate Professor Charlie Huveneers

Position

Biography

Associate Professor Charlie Huveneers lead the Southern Shark Ecology Group (SSEG) research lab at Flinders University. The SSEG delivers high quality research on the biology, ecology and population status of chondrichthyan (sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras), as well as assessments of their vulnerability to fishing pressure, interactions with humans and related public perception. The primary aims of our research include the determination of life history characteristics of sharks to improve assessments of their vulnerabilities to human, environmental and climatic impact, and investigations of their movement dynamics and residency patterns using various tracking tools including acoustic telemetry and satellite tagging.

Over the years, he has worked on a wide range of species including wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks, grey reef sharks, bronze whalers, dusky sharks, blacktip reef sharks, nervous sharks, smooth rays, fiddler rays, and white sharks.

He started his PhD at Macquarie University in 2003 on the biology and ecology of wobbegong sharks in relation to the commercial fishery in NSW. In 2007, he started running the Australian Acoustic Tagging and Monitoring System (AATAMS) part of the Integrated Marine Observing System program (IMOS) during which he deployed acoustic receivers around Australia and created a national network of acoustic telemetry users. He joined MISA through a joint position between SARDI - Aquatic Sciences and Flinders University where he acted as shark ecologist and Lecturer between 2009 and 2014. Since 2014, he has been at Flinders University full-time.

Qualifications

2002-2007

Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)

PhD in Environmental Science awarded February 2007

The ecology and biology of wobbegong sharks (genus Orectolobus) in relation to the commercial fishery in New South Wales, Australia

Apps, K., Dimmock, K., Lloyd, D. and Huveneers, C.P.M. (2017). Is there a place for education and interpretation in shark-based tourism? Tourism Recreation Research, [10.1080/02508281.2017.1293208][Scopus]

Huveneers, C.P.M., Ebert, D.A. and Dudley, S.F.J. (2015). The evolution of chondrichthyan research through a metadata analysis of dedicated international conferences between 1991 and 2014. African Journal of Marine Science, 37(2) pp. 129-139. [10.2989/1814232X.2015.1042911][Scopus]

Old, J. and Huveneers, C. (2006). Morphology of the blood cells from three species of wobbegong sharks (Orectolobus species) on the east coast of New South Wales. Zoo Biology, 25(1) pp. 73-82. [10.1002/zoo.20079][Scopus]

Allen, S. and Huveneers, C. (2005). First Record of an Australian Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) Feeding on a Wobbegong Shark (Orectolobus ornatus) Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 126 pp. 95-97. [Scopus][Web Link]

Apps, K., Dimmock, K., Lloyd, D. and Huveneers, C.P.M. (2017). Is there a place for education and interpretation in shark-based tourism? Tourism Recreation Research, [10.1080/02508281.2017.1293208][Scopus]

Invitation by the South Australian Science Premier to contribute to a collaborative initiative between Industry and Scientists due to being identified as an efficient science communicator (February 2014).

Popular articles to 14 different magazines and non-governmental agencies (e.g., Nature Conservation Council and Council Conservation of South Australia), for which I won the public prize award for one of them.

Public talks to audiences such as scuba-diving clubs, high school students, Rotary clubs, and aquarium visitors.